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Posts matching tags 'telstra'

2009/9/16

Telstra, Australia's telecommunications backbone quasi-monopolist, is going to be broken up, into separate wholesale and retail arms at least. Which sounds like good news for Australian internet users.

Let's hear it for the Telstra marketing people.
Every so often, my mobile phone bill comes with a booklet titled
"conversations" (note the stylishly lower-case title), containing
announcements of new services, SMS competitions and other attempts to get
the consumer to work up a higher phone bill.
To keep up the façade that the booklet is a fun free magazine, and
not, in fact, an attempt to sell you something, the "news" and advertising
are interspersed with a small amount of copywritten, non-promotional "fun"
material, such as some highly dubious "conversation starters":

Conversation Starter #2: Is a zebra white with black stripes or black with white stripes?

Conversation Starter #3: Did you know our nose and ears never stop growing?

Conversation Starter #6: Why is it called an eggplant? It's not an egg or a plant.

I can totally see these being used as an icebreaker at parties. Or indeed to approach attractive strangers in a bar.

One year ago:

2017/11/15

LGBT+ Australians and their allies can breathe a cautious sigh of relief as one prolonged chapter of the national culture-war pantomime comes to a close, with
61.6% of Australians voting to legalise same-sex marriage .

Two years ago:

2016/12/14

Terrible reports from Aleppo as the forces of the tyrant Assad, backed by Russia, take the last pockets of resistance and exact a terrible vengeance on the resisting population. Mass executions of civilians (or, in the

Five years ago:

2013/12/16

After it emerged that Thamsanqa Jantjie, the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial ceremony, had actually been making it up and just moving his arms about meaninglessly, Slavoj Žižek (no fan of well-meaning liberalism, to